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Homestuck: The Animated Pilot was announced on August 9th, 2025, by Vivienne Medrano AKA Vivziepop, the creator of animations such as Hazbin Hotel, on her personal YouTube channel. Andrew Hussie, the original creator of Homestuck will return as the lead writer, while Toby Fox, creator of Undertale, is set to revive his voice acting roll as John Egbert. The news about Homestuck getting an animated adaptation received mixed reviews from fans of the webcomic, who were resentful of Andrew Hussie's supposed role in removing the "Unofficial Homestuck Collection" a day prior to the announcement of the animated pilot. Other internet users expressed trepidation about Vivziepop's involvement with the project, and commented on how her, Hussie and Toby Fox's involvement appealed primarily to a Tumblr audience.

History

On August 9, 2025, Vivienne Medrano AKA VivziePop and her animation studio Spindleroo unveiled plans for an animated pilot of Homestuck, with Andrew Hussie serving as lead writer, and Toby Fox reprising his voice acting role as John Egbert. The YouTube trailer for the project was released on Vivziepop's YouTube^[1] channel on August 9th, gathering over 570,000 views in a day.

The announcement came a day after the co-creator of the "Unofficial Homestuck Collection" took down the website citing legal pressure from Andrew Hussie. The site had become an unofficial offline archive used by fans to view Homestuck in its original Flash-powered form following complaints about the official site becoming inaccessible.^[2]

On August 9th, X^[3] account @ToonHive posted a tweet about Toby Fox reprising his voice acting role as John Egbert in Vivziepop's new Homestuck animated adaptation, gathering over 77,000 likes in a day.

Online Reactions

Several internet users reacted to the announcement of the new Homestuck animation project, including Tumblr^[4] user @joeyclaire made a post on August 9th, 2025 that read, "the thing about “andrew hussie returns to homestuck to write a cartoon pilot produced by vivziepop with toby fox voicing john egbert” is like. it’s so far-fetched i wouldn’t even make that joke. because it would be too ridiculous for me to even find funny. and it’s not a joke. it’s literally happening right now." The post gathered over 11,000 notes in a day.

Also on August 9th, X^[5] user @wariocore posted a Hot People Who Eat Croissants Are Dangerous meme alongside a caption that read, "HOMESTUCK PILOT ANIMATED BY VIVZIEPOP'S TEAM WITH VOICEWORK BY TOBY FOX AFTER ANDREW HUSSIE TOOK DOWN THE PREVIOUSLY ENDORSED FAN ARCHIVE"

Several internet users also had strong reactions to Toby Fox's involvement with the new project, including X^[6] user @Sp00kyrex17, who posted a Look Man He Helped Me to comment on Toby Fox working on the Homestuck animated project with Andrew Hussie, gathering over 2,600 likes in a day.

Also on August 9th, X^[7] user @stiffcorpse00 joked about a monkey paw curling in response to the wish, "I hope Toby Fox gets more voice acting roles in animated shows!," implying that his work in the Homestuck adaptation is a twisted and unwanted interpretation of the wish.

Directed by Vivziepop Parodies

Several internet users posted jokes about other fictional projects "directed by Vivziepop," as seen in an August 9th, 2025 tweet by X^[8] user @dailybubbline, who posted a tweet joking about Vivziepop directing Fiona and Cake season 2, gathering over 4,000 likes in a day.

Also on August 9th, X^[9] user @eggfish05 posted a tweeting joking about Vivziepop directing "Dandy's World: The Animated Series," gathering over 3,000 likes in a day.

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